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... thing that caught our eye, upon arriving at the beach, was a footvolley game taking place on one of the volleyball courts. Footvolley is effectively volleyball where the players are banned from using any part of their arm to touch the ball. It is said to have been invented in the sixties up the road on Copacabana beach, at a time when football itself couldn't be played on the sand. The players involved in the game we were watching were very skilled and able to have long rallies. ...

... benefits to slightly less flash hotels! As soon as we returned to the hotel we found some tennis on the tellybox but we promptly went into siesta mode and the early start and huge lunch took it’s toll, and the Wombles took an Orinoco 40 winks. A few hours later cocktail hour was upon us so a little walk up the beach found us at one of the hundreds of little bars taking in a bit of people watching and having an evening beer.

... over 200 flavours of cachasca, drinking a ginger flavoured one, singing and dancing with the locals to a street drummer. The next day we woke up at 2:30pm. Jarrah slept for 13 hours, I slept for around 10, it was ridonkudonk. So we went for a walk all the way down Copacabana to Ipanema and bumped into the Israelis and the Dutchmen on the beach. It was quite amazing seeing how the locals used the beach, there was soccer, volleyball and soccer-volleyball being ...

... with seats and I was in the standing section. I had anticipated this as they had seat numbers and I knew I didn't have a seat. So I went to my section and said bye to them. The parade was so amazing. The floats were decorated so beautifully. There were different samba schools that participate, each school parades for 1 1/2 hours. Each school goes along the parade with various floats and also people dancing in front and behind the float. Theren were floats made into Dolphins, Eagles, ...

The weather was a little nicer the next day and we hopped on the local bus and spent most of the day at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. The Garden shows the diversity of Brazilian and foreign flora with around 6,500 species (some endangered) distributed throughout an area of 54 hectares, in addition to numerous greenhouses. There is also an important research center, which includes the ...